Monday, August 31, 2009

Cambrige Bay muskoxen

I went to Cambridge Bay for work and while there was taken out on the land to see muskoxen.  I had a Canon PowerShot A550 with me, which is a fine point and shoot camera but what I saw made me want to come back with my Canon F-1 and 400mm lens.  Too bad it was in Kugluktuk!

Other people had stopped to photograph the muskoxen as well since they were close to roads.







Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Trip out of town (part 3)



The Honda was coming back with us! And note the dried meat on the front of the boat.


A view over the Honda of our wake.


It was very very calm on the way back. It was so still it reminded us of Tucker Lake!


Although it was very warm at the camp, once back on the water it quickly cooled off again.

Trip out of town (part 2)

More images from the Science Camp in Basil Bay.

We had a snack shortly after we arrived. Bannock, tea and dried caribou (I think it's called mikku)! Yummy!



Then we were served delicious arctic char soup!




Sunday, August 23, 2009

Trip out of town (part 1)

We were invited by the school board to visit the science camp put on for students in the region. They were camping about a hour and a half from town by boat. They had been camping for a few days before we visited. It was a beautiful sunny day, but it didn't take long on the water to need our coats, hats and mitts! Once we landed those layers were quickly taken off.

View from the boat on the way to camp.



The students had caught four caribou near the camp. They were butchered and out to dry when we arrived. There is also arctic char on the drying rack! Some content below may not be suitable for all viewers. :)





Friday, August 14, 2009

Yamtastic!


Although there are two stores in town that sell grocery items, they do tend to charge double - triple what the same items would cost in southern Canada. Thankfully there is an alternative. We call it food-mail; we email for fax our grocery order to a store in Yellowknife and they pick it, charge a small fee plus air frieght and put it on a First Air flight to Kugluktuk. On our first order we learned to be specific since they tend to pick the large size of an item, however as you can see from the photo above the four sweet potatoes we ordered were ... large. If you have any sweet potatoe recipes please post them in the comments!


Kugluktuk air terminal building. A wee bit smaller than Halifax Airport where I used to work.


Paula misses driving, she's thinking about applying for a snowplow operator position! :D


Welcome.

Another view of the windmill, in case you had a hard time seeing it last time!

Cheers!

Thursday, August 13, 2009

A closer look at Coppermine River






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